Re: bloatware

On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:47:40PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2003 19:25, David Dawes wrote:
> |  On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:45:39AM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  >On Sunday 30 March 2003 04:09, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> |  >|  On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 11:49:13PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  >|  > Ok, what about 60MB of "font sources" (PCF, BDF fonts) in XFree86
> |  >|  > CVS and resulting 20MB of "installable fonts" in RPMs?
> |  >|  > Isn't it bloatware?
> |  >|
> |  >|  If you don't want to use those fonts, just delete them. This is not
> |  >|  that hard. ;-)
> |  >
> |  >That's not so easy.
> |  >Many apps use 'fixed' font name as default fontback.
> |
> |  That's trivial for you to fix.
> 
> Again, I think that fix should go to right place.
> Applications requesting 'fixed' font should be fixed first - at least to such 
> level that those apps if I don't have fixed font installed.
> Not correct behavior is one problem, but things are much worser if your 
> application crashes!

Just out of curiosity, what font is more likely to be on a system, and to be
used as a fallback font in place of fixed? As well, is it different now with
Xft?

Ben
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